Word: luck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wish you the best of luck, my sympathy is with you all. I sincerely hope the employment that used to be here will come back and hard times will not continue very much longer...
...business palace where Ivar Kreuger had ruled as "The Match King" until he put a pistol to his heart. But it was in Sweden's Parliament that Sweden's woe last week found utterance. "We know now that the Kreuger Company broke down not because of bad luck or bad conditions but because of dishonesty," cried Deputy Arthur Endeberg. "Sweden's business reputation will be ruined-unless we retrieve it by honesty, complete honesty!" Among English investors, according to WTylie King of the London Financial Times: "Feeling runs high against the neglect of responsible houses that omitted...
...there lived in Boston a rich, well-contented man whose calling was the manufacture of mineral paint. He was a primitive; his wealth had been the result of unflagging luck and savage industry. The little family--there were two girls--lived in Nankeen Square, the East End and their's was the happy, quiet life of unoriginal, elementary people...
...similar series, Major Frederic Mclaughlin's Chicago Black Hawks, a strong team which has played erratic .hockey this year, won, 1 to 0, against the -Toronto Maple Leafs, whose energetic manager, Connie Smythe, often occupies a box seat instead of the players' bench .because he considers it good luck...
...real actor can ever leave theatre. Considering the difficulties, portrayal of your true "down and outer is well done. He has achieved this beaten, despairing air which is typical of the breed. In addition, he gives impression of quiet power and earnestness which enable him to across a hard luck story in a thoroughly moving fashion: to express the wronght sentimentality which accompanys the hackneyed thesis of "the lure of the theatre" with surprising conviction. His humor is natural, forced, at times naive. But the "Happy Farrell of Carroll and Farrell, Song Dances, and Funny Sayings' 'takes himself...